jonathandrain

Use bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’). Here’s how the Pool theme does it.

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
    @import url(<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>);
</style>

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I still have some things to think about but your helpful advice has placed me on the right track. Many thanks!

The first one matters because it splits Google pagerank.

The second, I would like a feed because I would intend to add new spells, monsters, etc over time. Now that you talk about it, though, my major difference was that I didn’t want magic items to show up on the front page. “Hidden” categories might just do it. That just leaves some kind of custom permalink format.

#1 is not entirely false, either. If they’re displayed in full chronologically they’re just blog posts; if I display them in a list, then it becomes a sidebar affair that people might never see if they just came for the blog.

Pages still leaves two issues:

1) It would be necessary to link to new Pages via blog posts in order for anyone to see them, which would potentially split incoming links between two URLs

2) There are two main types of content, Articles (pieces of writing longer than a blog post typically allows) and Game Content (spells, monsters, etc). Are we talking about Pages for both of these?

3) No RSS feeds.

I’m confused. What were you saying was the answer I gave to my original question?

Surely someone on these forums can advise me.

That’s possible, except for two things:

1) I also have regular blog posts, which I want to use the standard permalink format

2) Blog entries can have multiple posts

3) A sabot of introductory text would be required to logically put a spell entry onto the main page; if it doesn’t appear on the main page, then perhaps it might as well be a Page

Good point. But why not Pages, if it doesn’t go on the front page? Pages would let me have this

example.com/spells/magic-missile

instead of this

example.com/2007/05/magic-missile

since if they aren’t blog posts, why show them on the front page?

So what are the new features of WordPress 2.0? Anything worth bragging about?

1. It’s a Post. Pages have too many limitations – no replies, no showing up in categories, no automatic excerpting in categories…

2. I don’t want that. I want to have as few subdirectories as possible for the sake of nice concise URLs. My category will be named such that pie automatically implies that it’s a recipe. Is there any way to do it like that?

3. Good.

In short, using Windows on your own computer doesn’t affect your ability to use permalinks; what matters to WordPress is the computer that your website is hosted at (the place you upload your website to). Permalinks rely on the “mod_rewrite” module, so if the server doesn’t have that you can’t use permalinks.

So is it more effort to code one’s own CMS system from scratch, or to modify WordPress?

Thanks Lorelle, that link was just what I was looking for. I’ll hack apart Kubrick and see what I can glean from that.

Anyone have any further suggestions?